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B. HEUMANN & F. B. PEASE. CLOTH MEASURING AND FACING MACHINE.

v Patented Jan. 6, 1885.

fw/dd @4 47" TUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNHARD HEUMANN, OF ROCHESTER, AND FRANKLIN B. PEASE, OF ONTARIO CENTRE, NEXV YORK.

CLOTH MEASURING AND FACING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,425, dated January 6, 1885.

Application filed May 7,1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, BERNHARD I-IEUMANN and FRANKLIN B. PEASE, citizens of the Unit ed States, residing, respectively, at Rochester and Ontario Centre, in the counties of Monroe and Vayne and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cloth-Measuring Machines; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to iinprovements'in cloth measuring and facing machines; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved cloth measuring and facing ma chine. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same arranged in connection with a table. Fig. 3 is a top view of the machine, showing the upper frame and roller partly turned.

The main frame of the machine consists of the standards A A and cross-piece B. Near the lower ends of the standards is journaled a removable roller, 0, and upon the top of the cross-piece B is pivoted a frame, D, in which is journaled a roller, E, having a crank, F, at one end.

At the front of the machine, and attached to one of the standards, is a bracket, G, in which is journaled a measuring-roll, H, having a shaft, I, that is connected to a registering mechanism, K, of any suitable construction. This registering mechanismis contained in a case at one end of the bracket G, as shown in Fig. 1. The roll H is mounted on one end of its shaft I and occupies a position about half-way between the standards A A and rollers C E.

At the back of the measuring-roll His a yielding pressure-foot, L, that is held by means of a spring, M, in close contact with the cloth that is passed between it and said roll.

To the standards A A, on each side of the pressure-foot L, are attached guides NN, that assist in preventing the cloth from wrinkling or lapping as it is passed between the press ure-foot and the measuring-roll H, a sufficient space between the pressure-foot and guides being afforded for the free passage of the cloth in starting the piece through, as an opportunity is thus afforded for taking hold of the piece of cloth with both hands near the center, thereby carrying it through easily. It can then be caught on small hooks that may be at tached to the upper roller, E, or on hooks attached to webbing fastened on said roller; or the roller may be roughened or covered with some rough material that will hold the ends of the cloth by merely lapping it around the roller E; or any convenient means of connecting the end of the cloth to the roller E may be adopted,so as to prevent the cloth from slipping from said roller while being wound thereon, and at the same time hold it with the proper degree of tautness to insure an accu rate measurement.

It is obvious that we may attach the spring M either to the pressure-foot L or to the roller H, as desired.

The machineis intended for measuring cloth in manufacturing establishments and warehouses, aud also for use by tailors and cutters in carrying the cloth upon the cutting-table and facilitating its manipulation i n the various processes of cutting.

In measuring cloth it is unrolled from the lower roller, 0, carried upward between the measuring-roll H and pressure-foot L, and

rolled onto the top roller, E, by turning the crank F. As the cloth passes between the pressure-foot L and measuring-roll H, the-Totation of the latter actuates the registering mechanism K through the shaft I and records the quantity. The opening or space on each side of the pressure-foot L and guides N N enables the cloth to pass with convenience and without liability of wrinkling or lapping. It will be seen that the cloth is measured in the middle, where it passes between the roll II and pressure-foot L, the latter exerting a pressure or tension that causes the moving cloth to revolve the roll H, and so measure and register with accuracy the quantity of material passed in contact with said roll. The

revolution of the roll Hinits turn presses forl is shown in Fig. 2; and it will be observed that ward succeeding portions of the cloth against the curved surface of the pressure foot smoothly and continuously and without allowing the slack cloth to make any lap in measuring. It will be understood, of course, that the circumference of the roll H equals some unit of length, or fractional part thereof, so that one complete revolution of the roll will register a corresponding quantity. The pivoted upper roller, E, enables the cutter in tailoring establishments to handle the cloth with great facility and inmu'ch less time than is required when the work of folding and facing to bring the nap in the proper direction is done in the usual manner by hand alone. It will be seen that after the whole roll of cloth is rolled from the lower roller, 0, to the upper roller, E, and thus measured, the cutter knows exactly how many yards there are in the piece. He then makes his calculations as to how many pieces of a certain length he can cut from said roll of cloth. He then draws from said roll onto the cuttingtable one piece of the required length, measuring this length by hand, and cuts it off. Then he reverses the roll of goods by giving the pivoted frame D a half-turn, draws another length, and cuts it off, which faces the cloth on the table and brings the nap of the goods right for the cutting, and so on until he has as many thicknesses as he desires to cut. He is then ready for cutting without going through the present tiresome and tedious process of folding and turning the goods by hand. By means of the swinging rollerE each of several pieces of cloth can thus be readily faced, without the great amount of folding and handling usually required,so as to bring the nap alike in all. It is obvious that the roller E and its frame D can either be mounted upon the cross-piece 13, as shown, or suspendedin any suitable manner from the top of the machine, as desired. placing the machine with relation to the table The manner of while the cloth is being passed through the machine the dust and other substances often found in cloth will fall to the floor without reaching the surface of the table.

Instead of placing the roll of cloth in the machine upon a lower roller, G, as shown, said roll of cloth may be laid ina suitable box placed at the base of the standards; or the same result will be accomplished by passing a small rod through the center of a roll of 55 cloth and hanging it in place of the roller 0.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. In a cloth-measuring machine, the combination of the measuring-roll H, mounted on the shaft I, a registering mechanism, K, connected to said shaft, the pressure-foot L, spring M, and guides N N, substantially as described.

2. In a cloth-measuring machine, the combination of the rollers C E, measuringroll H, mounted on the shaft I, a registering mechan ism, K, connected to said shaft, the yielding pressure-foot L, and the guides N N, substantiall y as described.

3. A cloth measuring and facing machine consisting of the frame A B, having guides IT N and bracket G, a registering mechanisnnK,

carried by said bracket, a measuring-roll, H,

mounted on a shaft, I, journaled in the bracket and connected to said registering mechanism, the pressure-foot L,and spring M, attached to the cross-pieceB, the lower roller, 0, and thepivoted frame D, carrying roller E, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

BERNHARD HEUMANN. FRANKLIN B. PEASE.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN Gmnmncnn, Jnoon SPAIIN. 

